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Maxim graduated as Master of Science from the Automation and Electronics Department of the Kostroma State University of Technology and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology.
Maxim began his professional career as a test automation engineer and was promoted to the role of a test automation lead. In that role, he worked on a project done for a company providing custodial, operational, and trading support services for investment advisors and was responsible for a set of applications based on different technologies. As part of a consultancy services group, Maxim participated in exchange connectivity development for a high frequency arbitrage trading hedge fund and a global investment bank. Thanks to his in-depth understanding of the technologies underpinning trading platforms, Maxim excelled in delivering test tools for advanced execution systems and later performance optimization analysts for algo-trading software and was promoted to the position of leading software developer.
As Director of Development of Exactpro Systems, Maxim is responsible for a project aimed at building an open source reference test harness.